#obviously there are plenty of other schools of thought that don't enforce this binary etc

[astrid-beck]

Someone asked me forever ago whether I think dnd arcana is humanities or stem and I thought about it way too much but my answer now is that arcana isn't humanities OR stem, it's more like natural philosophy. It's science as humanities. It predates separating mathematics from metaphor. I think it's about the connections and patterns you create by theorizing the abstract layer that surrounds the material world, impossible to pin down but uniquely meaningful because humans have thought about it

#what taking a history of science class does to a motherfucker #my original answer was humanities which is an unpopular take but #as a useless degree pursuer i need wizardry in my corner #dungeons and dragons #obligatory disclaimer i'm talking about the academic tradition of my american university background #obviously there are plenty of other schools of thought that don't enforce this binary etc #but that's the point of the humanities vs stem question innit